Broken Foot

Ducks winger Brad May will be out indefinitely as he was put on injured reserve Monday after an MRI exam revealed a broken bone in his right foot. May was injured on Saturday when he took a shot off his foot near the end of practice, but he played in Sunday's 2-1 shootout loss to San Jose before having the foot examined. May has three goals and one assist in 29 games this season.

LAS VEGAS - Jordan Adams, the UCLA freshman few talked about last summer, will be water cooler chatter this morning. The tone of the conversation will vary. There will be upbeat, did-you-see-that talk about Adams, who scored 11 points in the last six minutes to bring the Bruins from behind in a 66-64 victory over Arizona in a Pac-12 tournament semifinal Friday. There will be the downcast can-you-believe-it remorse about Adams, who broke his right foot on the game's last play and is lost for the season.

Cal State Fullerton catcher David Trentine is expected to be sidelined for three to six weeks because of a broken bone in his right foot. Trentine was injured in the Fresno State series a week ago, and an initial examination had indicated a sprain, but further tests revealed the broken bone. Trentine had been platooned with Craig Patterson, who will take over full time. Trentine was hitting .286 with six runs batted in and had played in seven of the first eight games.

Matt Schaub and Matt Leinart. One needs a boot, the other needs a reboot. With Schaub done for the season for the Houston Texans because of a broken foot, Leinart has another chance to prove that he has what it takes to make it as an NFL starter, and that his success at USC wasn't just because of the all-star cast surrounding him. "The last three or four years, I've just really kind of put my head down and just worked extremely hard...

Mariano Duncan doesn't have a leg left to stand on. The Dodger shortstop, who already had suffered ankle, calf and hamstring injuries to his right leg, fractured his left foot in Monday night's game against the Mets and is expected to be out a month. Duncan's latest injury was almost as strange as his first, in which he was struck in the calf by a line drive during batting practice last Wednesday in Houston.

League most valuable player Shaun Alexander has a broken left foot and will be lost to the Seattle Seahawks for at least a couple of weeks. Coach Mike Holmgren said Monday that a bone scan revealed Alexander sustained a small crack and displaced fracture on a non-weight-bearing bone in his foot sometime during the Seahawks' 42-30 win over the New York Giants on Sunday. Alexander ran for 47 yards in 20 carries before sitting out the fourth quarter, which began with Seattle leading, 42-3.

Montreal Expo outfielder Vladimir Guerrero, one of the top rookies in the major leagues, will be sidelined for up to five weeks because of a fractured left foot, the team said. Guerrero was injured Saturday when he fouled a ball off his foot. Guerrero had won the starting job in right field with a strong showing in spring training. "He should be able to start running lightly and be in the batting cage within three weeks," team doctor Larry Couglin said.

As if the Lakers needed this to happen. Forward Trevor Ariza was diagnosed with a fractured bone in his right foot after hurting it Sunday at practice. Ariza will see foot specialist Kenneth Jung today, at which point a timetable for his return will be determined. It was unclear exactly how Ariza injured the fourth metatarsal in his foot, but he apparently came down on Derek Fisher's foot, according to a Lakers official.

Michael Jordan will be lost to the Chicago Bulls for at least six weeks because of a broken bone in his foot. Jordan, last season's rookie of the year, injured his foot when he came down hard on it in the second quarter of last Tuesday's game against Golden State at Oakland. The first X-rays taken of Jordan's foot failed to show the break, but Jordan was X-rayed again when the Bulls returned to Chicago and the break showed up this time.

The bad news continued Thursday for Duke when it was learned that point guard Bobby Hurley broke a bone in his right foot in the first half of Wednesday night's loss to North Carolina. Hurley will be sidelined for up to three weeks. Team physicians X-rayed Hurley Thursday at Duke Medical Center and found he had broken the second right metatarsal in his right foot. Hurley had been X-rayed earlier in the week after suffering pain in his foot following the Notre Dame game.

Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia is bracing for the possibility of having season-ending surgery on his broken left foot. Pedroia will have a CT scan on Friday. He says if the exam doesn't show sufficient healing, he will have a screw put in his foot. The injury originally occurred in late June. Pedroia returned for two games in August, then went back on the 15-day disabled list. He and the Red Sox hoped for his return this month, but his recovery hasn't gone as swiftly as anticipated.

The injury to defensive end Datone Jones refueled concerns about UCLA's synthetic turf at Spaulding Field. Jones suffered a broken right foot running on the turf during practice Tuesday and will have surgery Friday to insert a screw to hold together his fifth metatarsal. Coach Rick Neuheisel was optimistic that Jones could play again this season, though "the surgery is a 10- to 12-week deal," Neuheisel said. The injury occurred when Jones was "running, making a play on quarterback, and stepped in an awkward way and put a little pressure on that bone," Neuheisel said.

End Datone Jones broke his right foot in practice Monday, leaving UCLA without one of its best defensive players until at least October. Jones was injured during an individual drill on the artificial surface at the Bruins' practice facility. He was taken to the hospital for X-rays. "We'll have to wait and see the significance," Coach Rick Neuheisel said. "He just took a step, which caused the deal. He was wearing the same shoes he wears all the time, so it wasn't a shoe issue.

West Virginia starting point guard Darryl "Truck" Bryant will miss the rest of the NCAA Tournament after breaking his right foot, school officials confirmed Tuesday night. The loss is a blow to the second-seeded Mountaineers who face No. 11 Washington in Thursday's East Regional semifinals at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y. Bryant, a 6-foot-2 sophomore, broke the fifth metatarsal in his right foot. He started 31 of 35 games this season while averaging 9.3 points, 3.1 assists and 2.2 rebounds.

The Boston Celtics said a review by their medical staff determined Paul Pierce has a sprained left foot. He is listed as day-to-day. Reports earlier Tuesday indicated Pierce might have broken his foot Monday at Washington, which would've idled him several weeks. Del Harris resigns Former Lakers coach Del Harris resigned as an assistant with the New Jersey Nets. Harris, 72, joined the team in late November after General Manager Kiki Vandeweghe was named interim coach following the firing of Lawrence Frank after the Nets' 0-17 start.

California will head into the toughest stretch of its schedule missing one of its key offensive players. Wide receiver Nyan Boateng is expected to miss four to six weeks after undergoing surgery on a broken right foot Monday. The No. 6-ranked Golden Bears open Pacific 10 Conference play Saturday at Oregon and then play host to No. 12 USC next week. After a week off, the Golden Bears play UCLA at the Rose Bowl. Boateng was injured in the first half of last Saturday's 35-21 victory at Minnesota while blocking on a run by Jahvid Best . Boateng played the rest of the half before doctors determined the injury.

Duck captain Paul Kariya ditched his crutches last week. The protective "moon boot" went a few days ago. "It's in the trash can," Kariya joked. "It's being lit right now." The next step, literally, is skating Tuesday for the first time since he suffered a broken bone in his right foot Dec. 17 against the Tampa Bay Lightning. If all goes well, Kariya expects to spend a couple of days practicing with his teammates when they return from a three-game trip next week.

The San Francisco 49ers' quest for a successor to Roger Craig as a heavy-duty running back was set back when the team learned that rookie Ricky Watters will be sidelined for six to eight weeks because of a broken right foot he suffered during practice Friday. Watters is a second-round draft pick from Notre Dame. Craig is now a Raider. Both running backs drafted by the 49ers have been injured.

Houston center Yao Ming will have surgery on his broken left foot next week and probably will miss all of next season, the latest blow to the Rockets' faltering bid to return to the NBA's elite. The team said Friday that there is no timetable set for the return of the 7-foot-6 Yao, a seven-time All Star, but that he is "expected to be available for the team's training camp in 2010." That camp is 16 months away.

No one's quite saying it around here, but in the words of Jerry Sloan, things look pretty bleak. Houston Rockets center Yao Ming is out the rest of the playoffs because of a hairline fracture in his left foot, and Ron Artest can't stop getting tossed out of games, giving the Lakers one of the strongest 2-1 series leads the Western Conference semifinals has ever seen.